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10 Greatest Military Operation Names
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| March 15, 2018
| James Barber
Posted on 03/16/2018 5:35:30 AM PDT by C19fan
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I think the German offensive plan for Verdun "Unternehmen Gericht (Operation Judgement) " should be on the list. Appropriate for an battle the felt like the End Times. Operation Market-Garden should be on the list. The Red Army like naming operations in winter of 1942-43 after Roman gods: Uranus, Little Saturn, and Mars.
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03/16/2018 5:35:30 AM PDT
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C19fan
To: C19fan
I always thought “Overlord” and “Rolling Thunder” sounded cool as hell.
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posted on
03/16/2018 5:41:16 AM PDT
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equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
To: equaviator
“Rolling Thunder” has to be the most overhyped name in military history. It conveys the USAF would carpet bomb North Vietnam starting from the DMZ up to Hanoi but no LBJ had to give the ok for an outhouse to be bombed.
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03/16/2018 5:46:50 AM PDT
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C19fan
To: C19fan
...LBJ had to give the ok for an outhouse to be bombed. His micromanagement of targeting was part of the problem, the other part was that he preferred to bomb jungle and outhouses instead of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese lines of communication.
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03/16/2018 5:55:24 AM PDT
by
drop 50 and fire for effect
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To: C19fan
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03/16/2018 5:55:36 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
To: C19fan
At the start of the last Iraq war I was working on an invasion plan for Bagdad that I had tentatively named “Operation Pork Pie Hat” - but DARPA wouldn’t even return my phone calls...
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03/16/2018 5:55:49 AM PDT
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WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
To: C19fan
...LBJ had to give the ok for an outhouse to be bombed. Operation Exploding Crapper?
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03/16/2018 5:57:15 AM PDT
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WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
To: C19fan
Have a special attachment to Operation Texas Star. Not only am I a Texan but I was there with the 101st. We lost almost 400 men and had damn near 2000 wounded.
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03/16/2018 6:09:56 AM PDT
by
Dusty Road
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To: C19fan
I like “Operation Wetback”, but it wasn’t a military operation so it really doesn’t belong here.
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03/16/2018 6:17:56 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
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03/16/2018 6:30:28 AM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
To: drop 50 and fire for effect
Oh so true about LBJ’s absolute control of Rolling Thunder’s operations from the safety of the White House half a world away.
IMHO the author’s missed a much more important Vietnam era campaign - LINEBACKER II. In three weeks US air assets, including B-52s, accomplished what LBJ was unable do in 3 1/2 years! More importantly the North Vietnamese KNEW they had lost and were begging for the resumption of the Paris peace talks on American Terms.
Too bad the authors of this article went for “cool names” in stead of successful operations with major military and political impacts. IMHO “cool” is a weather condition not the effects of a military operation!
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03/16/2018 6:35:16 AM PDT
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Nip
To: C19fan
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03/16/2018 6:42:51 AM PDT
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snarkpup
(Fake news is one-half of the problem. Fake education is the other half.)
To: C19fan
The Soviets also like to use names of Russian Generals, such as Bagration, Kutuzov, Suvorov, and Rumyantsev.
To: C19fan
Who the he!! wrote this crap
" It did massive damage but, as history later revealed, the United States underestimated the commitment of the Vietnamese people to unified self government and overestimated their commitment to Communism. What happened was that the Democratic Congress refused to give the South Vietnamese military support to which they were entitled and left them at the mercy of the communists supported by China and Russia. The fact is that the bastards betrayed an ally.
Whoever wrote this crap needs to be fired. Military.com better do a better job
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03/16/2018 6:46:55 AM PDT
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johncatl
(...governs least, governs best.)
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03/16/2018 7:01:56 AM PDT
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GreenLanternCorps
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To: C19fan
“Ivy Bells” has to be one of the oddest. It sounds like a Christmas carol.
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03/16/2018 7:38:32 AM PDT
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CrazyIvan
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To: equaviator
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03/16/2018 7:46:29 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
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To: Dusty Road
Had to educate myself on that one, WOW!! Thank you very much for your service. Your lost souls are also true heroes.
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03/16/2018 7:58:48 AM PDT
by
New Perspective
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To: C19fan
Operation Ten Plagues 1522 October 1948
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03/16/2018 8:32:32 AM PDT
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xone
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03/16/2018 10:01:09 AM PDT
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Rappini
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